Time Quotes by Henry Miller

Work on one thing at a time until finished.

— Henry Miller

The cancer of time is eating us away

— Henry Miller

“Yeah, I picked up a book and I read. You can get something out of a book, even a bad book ...…

— Henry Miller

History is the myth, the true myth, of man's fall made manifest in time.

— Henry Miller

On the meridian of time, there is no injustice: there is only the poetry of motion creating the illusion of truth and…

— Henry Miller

For there is only one great adventure and that is inward toward the self, and for that, time nor space nor even…

— Henry Miller

“The world around me is dissolving leaving here and there spots of time. The world is a cancer eating itself away.”

— Henry Miller

Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

— Henry Miller

Every time you come to the limit of what is demanded of you, you are faced with the same problem-to be yourself!

— Henry Miller

For the moment I can think of nothing— except that I am a sentient being stabbed by the miracle of these waters…

— Henry Miller

“The world is a cancer eating itself away... I am think that when the great silence descends upon all and everywhere music…

— Henry Miller

Los Angeles gives one the feeling of the future more strongly than any city I know of. A bad future, too, like…

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The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world…

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“Everything that belongs to the past seems to have fallen into the sea; I have memories, but the images have lost their…

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“I had no time to make a world of my own: I had to stay fixed like Atlas, my feet on the…

— Henry Miller

Your whole past is like a long sleep which would have been forgotten had there been no memory, but remembrance is there…

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“The moment I stepped on the American boat which was to take me to New York I felt I was in another…

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You can look at things all your life and not see them really. This ‘seeing’ is, in a way, a ‘not seeing,’…

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To imagine a new world is to live it daily, each thought, each glance, each step, each gesture, killing and recreating, death…

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“Each one is traveling his own way ad though the earth be rotting with good things, there is no time to pluck…

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“give you a nostalgia for a people and a soil you have never known, but which is in your blood, mysteriously there…

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“And for that one moment of freedom you have to listen to all that love crap...it drives me nuts sometimes... I want…

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“I see how we ourselves stand before the future, divided between hope and fear. But at least we know that there is…

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“What if at the last moment, when the banquet table is set and the cymbals clash, there should appear suddenly, and wholly…

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Begin this moment, wherever you find yourself, and take no thought of the morrow. Look not to Russia, China, India, not to…

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“I wandered aimlessly through this muddy lane bespattered with blood, fragments of the past detached themselves and floated listlessly before my eyes,…

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“And when he got through I felt for the first time that there had really been a war and that the man…

— Henry Miller

“The dreamers dream from the neck up, their bodies securely strapped to the electric chair. To imagine a new world is to…

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“I had no time to make a world of my own. I had to stay fixed, like Atlas, my feet on the…

— Henry Miller

“1) Work on one thing at a time until finished. 2) Start no more new books, add no more new material to…

— Henry Miller

“Perhaps my grandfather was right, perhaps I was spoiled in the bud by the books I read. But it is ages since…

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“In that moment, I lost completely the illusion of time and space: the world unfurled its drama simultaneously along a meridian that…

— Henry Miller

“Every time you come to the limit of what is demanded of you, you are faced with the same problem - to…

— Henry Miller

“To move forward clinging to the past is like dragging a ball and chain. The prisoner is not the one who has…

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Even if one’s whole life were a mistake, there is always time to change.

— Henry Miller

The moment one is on the side of life; peace and security drop out of consciousness. The only peace, the only security,…

— Henry Miller

“I had just made the realization that life is indestructible and that there is no such thing as time, only the present.”

— Henry Miller

We are swimming on the face of time and all else has drowned, is drowning, or will drown.

— Henry Miller

When into the womb of time everything is again withdrawn chaos will be restored and chaos is the score upon which reality…

— Henry Miller

I felt free and chained at the same time - like one feels just before election, when all the crooks have been…

— Henry Miller